This is a hybrid event and will be hosted in-person in the Community Meeting Room at West Hollywood Library as well as on Zoom. Please register at the link below to receive the link to the m eeting via email.
\nhttps://library-lacounty-gov.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtcO ivqzwpGNDyGiDsipuoB54noYxGsxYg
\nCo-sponsored by the City of Wes t Hollywood Women's Advisory Board\, Women and Books Book Club meets on th e first Tuesday of the month to discuss literary works by and focused on w omen.
\nPlease contact the library to borrow a print copy of the boo k. eBook is available through Libby app/OverDrive.
\nSummary provided by the publisher:
\nAlaska\, 1920: a brutal place to homestead\, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless\, they are drifting apart&mdash\;he breaking under th e weight of the work of the farm\; she crumbling from loneliness and despa ir. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall\, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone&mdash\;but th ey glimpse a young\, blonde-haired girl running through the trees.
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This little girl\, who calls herself Faina\, seems to be a child of
the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side\, skims lightly across th
e snow\, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and
Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the p
ages of a fairy tale\, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in
this beautiful\, violent place things are rarely as they appear\, and wha
t they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.